Show SIGHTED FLEET OF battleships punta arenas feb 10 the captain of the orua said that he sighted 19 vessels in the fleet these being the sixteen american battleships the chilean cruiser and two others probably colliers he did not sight tho the american torpedo boat flotilla which accompanied the battleships from this port but which turned northal nor that smyth channel thirty miles froni from the western end of magellan straits to proceed through this passage to owing to the heavy weather tho the warships wore were spread out over a considerable sid erable st stretch but all seemed to be malting making splendid progress in the face of 0 strong winds |